Yoshua Bengio

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AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

Speaks on: AI Governance AI Regulation AI Safety Existential Risk Future

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Location: Canada

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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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Besides loss of control, the other catastrophic possibility is humans using AI to construct an eventually worldwide dictatorship. A small group of humans could concentrate all the power that AI will have, especially if we achieve AGI or superintellig...
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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached
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Frontier AI systems could surpass most individuals across most cognitive tasks within just a few years. These advances could unlock solutions to major global challenges, but they also carry significant risks. To safely advance toward superintelligenc...
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AI alignment is solvable
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I'm now very confident that it is possible to build AI systems that don't have hidden goals, hidden agendas. [...] A Scientist AI would be trained to give truthful answers based on transparent, probabilistic reasoning.
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